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Carson Block Sees Trouble for Apartment Complexes in Sun Belt

  • Investors piled into multifamily market during the pandemic
  • Block: multifamily woes is ‘shoe that hasn’t really dropped’
Block Says He's Short Elf Beauty on Revenue Concerns
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Apartment complexes will be the next major source of problems in the commercial real estate market after offices were hit hard in recent years, according to the short seller Carson Block.

Even before the pandemic, many properties were trading at negative capitalization rates, Block said. Cap rates measure how much net operating income a property generates compared to its value.